The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-05-12
THE MILK HABITS VICTIMS.

THE MILK HABITS VICTIMS.
HOW csstain school Teachers Got
Into Hot Water Thereby.
Some time after the Broadway
railroad investigation drew the atten-
ton OF the public to the Sharp pat
ent milk-bottle some of the teachers of
grammer school No. 70, on Lexington
avenue, lear One hundred and fifth
street, came to the conclusion that they
stood greatly in need of a milk diet.
Therefore, unmindful of the %unfortu-
nate effect on the memory produced by
the use of the Tactical fluid as a bever-
age, they became milk topers. Orders
were given to the milkman to leave
with the ~janitor each day a certain
quantity of milk for the teachers.
From the day when the milk can
hrst made it's appearance in grammar
school No. ~ trouble began. For a
time there was no preceptable differ
ence between the actions of the milk
drinking and the MISUNDERSTANDING
teachers. Then one day the hard-work-
ed janitor refused any longer to act as
guard OF the milk can. If the teach
ers wanted milk left at the school house,
he said, they might have it left and take
their chances of ever getting any of it,
Or they might choose one of their num-
Der by lot to be on hand early in the
morning to receive the precious can
from the honest Jerseyman who brought
1T As for him and his house, they
would no longer have aught to do in
the matter.
Al once the baleful effects of milk
shrinking became apparent. The teach
BIS addicted to the habit had become
torgetful. There is a rule of the board
Df education which all teachers are ex-
'pected to know as we'll as they know
the multiplication table, 1t is that no
teacher in a New York public school
shall send any of her pupils on private
brands. This rule was absolutely for
gotten by those teachers on whom the
terrible fascination of milk-drinking
had fastened. They held a consulta-
ton. It was decided that they must
have their usual amount of milk and as
frequently as ever. But how this was
10 be accomplished vas a knotty ques
ton. The tactical knot was cut by a
pretty milk-toper who suggested that
pupils could be sent to neighboring
stores for the milk, thus doing away
with the necessity of all early morning
milkman and all consequent trouble to
the ~janitor. The plan was put into op-.
Grafton and worked charmingly. Again
milk flowed, and there was joy among
the teachers.
But n day a little girl who was
running up the stairs with a glass can
Of the compound from a store fell. The
can broke, the milk was spilled, and
The child's hand badly cut. Thus the
matter was brought to the notice of the
principal, and she, calling together the
offending teachers. read the rules gov
erning the case and ordered that they
be obeyed. The janitor was subse-
quently instructed to receive milk as
he had done at first, and the principal
supposed all would be well once more.
The practice of sending the pupils on
private errands was not, however, stop
ped. The offending teachers seemed
to think they were prosecuted by the
school trustees of the ward and by the
principal of the school. They sent pu-
pills to their homes for hairpins and vari-
Gus other small but useful articles. That
teachers should want hairpins seems
not so strange. The time of the pupil
was, however, wasted. But a stranger
thing was sent for. This was hot water.
Of course the teachers did not need to
shave. Having milk and being so
SO devoted to it, they naturally would
not need hot water for compromising
any drink, but pupils trotted back and
forth to get it just the same. So much
valuable time in which the idea of tend
er age might have been taught to per-
sorate the educational target was used
by the teachers in sending them on en-
rands that the principal made charges
before the school trustees of the ward.
They last week held a meeting, and
have sent out strict orders that pupils
in their ward shall no more do errands.
This is expected to end the trouble
NeW York Times.